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Private bathrooms were rare, but individual offices very normal. I’d point to Mad Men as the model of the typical company office through the early eighties. (Note that there was still an open floor plan, the "secretarial pool," where they put most of the women)

By the end of the eighties, the set of _Office Space_ was the norm.



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